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the first English horses that stood at the stud there), 

 Saturn, Spot, Turnus, and Otheothea (a brood mare 

 of some repute, though a bad racer). His Coxcomb 

 (own brother to Dorimant), after a short but distin- 

 guished career upon the race-course, went to the stud, 

 but even then was frequently hunted, and in 1789, at 

 the advanced age of eighteen, took part in a ' remark- 

 able fox-chase,' at the conclusion of which, we are 

 told, ' the few who were in it was (sic) from 25 to 

 30 miles distance from home. Coxcomb, aged eighteen, 

 was up to the hounds the whole time, and was rode 

 by a gentleman who weighed upwards of 12 stone.' 

 Lord Ossory owned, if he did not import, the Ossory 

 chestnut Arabian which stood at Ampthill, Bedford- 

 shire, and which was the sire of Lord Grosvenor's 

 Selima (daughter of Snapdragon), foaled 1772. Alto- 

 gether, Lord Upper Ossory seems to have been the 

 sort of member that would do honour as well as 

 excellent service both to the Jockey Club and to the 

 Turf. The title became extinct in 1818, though Lord 

 Ossory is understood to be a sub-title of the Marquess 

 of Ormonde. 



The Lord Pigot of the list is a historical and a 

 tragical character ; for he must be the unfortunate 

 Sir George Pigot who was created Baron Pigot of 

 Patshull, near Wolverhampton, in 1766, was Governor 

 of Fort George, Madras, and for whose treatment 

 (including deprivation of government and imprison- 

 ment, which seems to have caused his death), certain 



